Quandary over a Facebook posting....

[JoePhilly]

54. So I hear you ... but ...

There is a contradiction in the position they seem to take .... from your post ....

1) "I have family members who very much believe that God is constantly fiddling with everything around us and that the Devil is constantly trying to get us to do bad things"

2) "what they are asking for when they ask for it "if it's God's will" is to grant their request if God doesn't have specific other plans."

These two statement are at odds.

God can't be "fiddling with everything around us" but then also not "have specific other plans."

I do understand that they may find it comforting to separate the 2, but it doesn't make sense.

After all, God is all powerful ... and so if God "fiddles with everything", then he's got to be doing so for a reason ... and the reason, has to relate to his other, or larger plans.

If not, then his "fiddling" is not purposeful. God becomes a kid with an Ant farm. The kid's larger plan was to set up the farm, and having done so, the kid "fiddles" with the Ant farm for fun. The kid's larger plan is to "not destroy the Ant farm" ... and so the kid can "fiddle" with it, but only to the extent that doing so does not destroy it.

But if this is the situation, God is not very interested in us. He's "fiddling" with us.